🏛️ Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)
Seven Lombard architectural and cultural sites across the Italian Peninsula, 6th to 8th century
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- Seven architectural complexes across Italy inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage
- Period: 568–774 AD (Lombard Kingdom)
- Span from Friuli-Venezia Giulia south to Apulia
- UNESCO inscription: 2011
The Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568–774 AD) is a collection of seven distinct architectural and cultural sites distributed across the Italian Peninsula that document the Lombard Kingdom, a Germanic power that ruled major portions of Italy for over two centuries. These sites represent the fusion of Germanic, Roman, Byzantine, and Christian traditions, and collectively demonstrate how the Lombards established political, religious, and cultural authority through monumental ...